Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Give examples of intercultural communication competence skills appropriate to more than one culture

2. List the barriers to effective and appropriate intercultural communication

3. Give an example of ethnocentrism that demonstrates it as a barrier to intercultural communication

4. Distinguish between stereotypes, prejudice, and racism and show how each is a barrier to intercultural communication

5. Discuss ethical guidelines for intercultural communication